Although golf today has a dash of high society about it, that wasnt always the case. Golf: A Very Peculiar History traces the sport from its earliest ball-in-hole games and male-only origins right up to the scandals that rock its current celebrities and tournaments-with a few mulligans in between.

A former newspaper journalist and BBC producer/presenter, David Arscott has written more than 50 books. This is his fifth title in the popular Peculiar History series.